AFP revenge porn comments slammed as 'victim shaming'

A woman who lived through years of men being directed to her door for random sex has slammed a senior police officer for "victim shaming", after he called for people to "grow up" and stop sharing naked pictures.

A parliamentary inquiry on Thursday examined ways to tackle the problem, which it heard was growing exponentially.

Signs and security put up by Robyn Night and her husband in response to dozens of visits from men expecting sex.

Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner Shane Connelly told the inquiry: "People just have to grow up in terms of what they're taking and loading on to the computer because the risk is so high".

"[They say] if you go out in the snow without clothes on you'll catch a cold – if you go on to the computer without your clothes on, you'll catch a virus," he said, according to The Guardian.

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Mrs Night had previously sought to hide her identity but put a name and a face to her story to help raise awareness of revenge porn.

"It's a wicked analogy but it's pretty realistic."

Assistant Commissioner Connolly denied he was victim blaming, saying "wicked" people would take advantage of those who were naive.

Brisbane woman Robyn Night has launched a petition calling on specific laws to combat revenge porn – the sharing of private sexual images and recordings of a person without their consent – something the inquiry is considering.

She was described as a "gangbang slut" and "no limit slave" who deserved "extreme punishment" on sex site profiles without her knowledge before men were invited to her home address for sex.

The 37-year-old took to her change.org page on Friday to criticise the assistant commissioner's comments, saying they made her feel "lonely, isolated and demoralised".

"I'm a married mother left frightened in my own home after my ex (allegedly) impersonated me online 10 years down the line - I knew nothing about it.

But the Turnbull government prefers to leave the process to the states, through a Council of Australian Governments efforts to limit the use of technology to abuse women.

Mrs Night's case, where she alleged her persecutor Photoshopped her head onto the body of naked women, before impersonating her online and inviting them to her house for sex, would be unlikely to fall under the scope of the proposal.